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@libraryogre @Tim_Eagon Reading the story under the assumption that he's full of his own shit made it very inoffensive reading it again as a grown up with taste and an appreciation for quality.
Mara Jade also really isn't a Jedi demigod in these books either. Just a Dark Jedi.
It's the fanwank of later writers that distorted them to silly proportions.
@Tim_Eagon @libraryogre One thing I noticed when reading it again a couple of years ago is that pretty much all the fluffing for Thrawn's brilliance and magnificence comes from the mouth of Thrawn. Much of it being assurances that any apparent setbacks actually don't matter because his real plans are actually so brilliant that he already factored in the possibilities.
@libraryogre @Tim_Eagon The entire Expanded Universe is only mediocre.
They are works that introduce great new ideas to the setting, but none are very well executed.(Except the KotOR comic series.)
@libraryogre Any time you come across something really bonkers and out of place, that you can't recall ever having heard of before in 90s Star Wars, it's almost certainly from Dark Empire.
There are reasons writers were always building on elements from each other's stories, but nobody ever referenced things from Dark Empire.
@LeviKornelsen I am fully committed to camp #DementiaDon. It just seems too obvious to not be the case.
@Tim_Eagon @libraryogre Real goths don't go to reddit.
@Tim_Eagon @zozo Ah, yes, they did...
Probably like the new Matrix movie.